Thursday, September 27, 2007

Beth Ditto the star vocalist from the rock band Gossip has a very interesting editorial spread on the latest POP Magazine – The Siren Issue. The fashion editorial called “Size Zero” was photographed by Steven Klein and fashion edited by Katie Grand. I love how this fashion story feels like a combination of Russ Mayer’s “Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!” and John Water’s “Pink Flamingo”. Also some of the shot on the beach reminds me of Blind Mellon’s “No Rain” video and Beth as the grown up Bee Girl (I wonder what happened to her?) specially that the male model Blake kinda resemble Shannon Hoon.

All Beth outfits from the shoot (Proenza Schouler, Prada, YSL, Giles Deacon, and Hussein Chalayan ) were costumed made for just this spread. As if those high fashion designer would make clothes for plus size women.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Ever since Warhol era Hollywood celebrities have been subject of many artists. But majority of them never really collaborated with the artists for projects. I think that what makes Brad Pitt different from most of his colleagues that he seems always interested in working with different artists of various medium - whether it’s for fashion editorial or avant-garde videos. Maybe Brad interest in architecture makes more sensible to other form of arts.

Here are some of artist Brad Pitt has collaborated with.

The Many Lives of Brad Pitt by Mario Testino

In front of Mario Testino’s camera Brad Pitt showed his many different faces for V Magazine.

Freedom of Love is a short film directed by Nick Knight during a photo shoot for Vanity Fair. Nick Knight created various visual and aural actions for Brad Pitt to perform while he reads a stanza from André Breton's poem 'Freedom of Love.

"My wife with the hair of a wood fireWith the thoughts of heat lightningWith the waist of an hourglassWith the waist of an otter in the teeth of a tigerMy wife with the lips of a cockade and of a bunch of stars of the last magnitudeWith the teeth of tracks of white mice on the white earthWith the tongue of rubbed amber and glassMy wife with the tongue of a stabbed hostWith the tongue of a doll that opens and closes its eyesWith the tongue of an unbelievable stoneMy wife with the eyelashes of strokes of a child's writingWith brows of the edge of a swallow's nestMy wife with the brow of slates of a hothouse roofAnd of steam on the panesMy wife with shoulders of champagneAnd of a fountain with dolphin-heads beneath the iceMy wife with wrists of matchesMy wife with fingers of luck and ace of heartsWith fingers of mown hayMy wife with armpits of marten and of beechnutAnd of Midsummer NightOf privet and of an angelfish nestWith arms of seafoam and of riverlocksAnd of a mingling of the wheat and the millMy wife with legs of flaresWith the movements of clockwork and despairMy wife with calves of eldertree pithMy wife with feet of initialsWith feet of rings of keys and Java sparrows drinkingMy wife with a neck of unpearled barleyMy wife with a throat of the valley of goldOf a tryst in the very bed of the torrentWith breasts of nightMy wife with breasts of a marine molehillMy wife with breasts of the ruby's crucibleWith breasts of the rose's spectre beneath the dewMy wife with the belly of an unfolding of the fan of daysWith the belly of a gigantic clawMy wife with the back of a bird fleeing verticallyWith a back of quicksilverWith a back of lightWith a nape of rolled stone and wet chalkAnd of the drop of a glass where one has just been drinkingMy wife with hips of a skiffWith hips of a chandelier and of arrow-feathersAnd of shafts of white peacock plumesOf an insensible pendulumMy wife with buttocks of sandstone and asbestosMy wife with buttocks of swans' backsMy wife with buttocks of springWith the sex of an irisMy wife with the sex of a mining-placer and of a platypusMy wife with a sex of seaweed and ancient sweetmeatMy wife with a sex of mirrorMy wife with eyes full of tearsWith eyes of purple panoply and of a magnetic needleMy wife with savanna eyesMy wife with eyes of water to he drunk in prisonMy wife with eyes of wood always under the axeMy wife with eyes of water-level of level of air earth and fire."

Here’s Brad video portrait from internationally acclaimed American avant-garde artist Robert Wilson (known as the towering figure of avant-garde theatre. His groundbreaking international theatre works such as "Deafman Glance," "Einstein on the Beach" and "The CIVIL WarS," were lauded as a mesmerizing visual genius.) This Wilson’s project is about 50 stylized HD video portraits of celebrities to be viewed on flat panel HDTVs hung on the wall like pictures. The HD video portraits cast celebrities like Brad Pitt, Steve Buscemi and Winona Ryder in unique settings where exceedingly slow movement is presented in roughly five-minute loops to bring a new dimension to term “still life.”The idea of the project is to create artifacts that sit on the wall in the tradition of paintings, and film but don’t deal with a frame and other constraints of paintings or photos. It is also meant to be a very playful extension of the paintings. They have the appearance of still life on the wall, but then they started gradually to move. The more you watch them, the more you see in terms of that movement. They sit up on your wall as permanent installations. Brad Pitts’s portrait ended up being on the cover of Vanity Fair and we all know what happened after.

Brad Pitt Unleashed by Steven KleinHere’s is the video of W Magazine photo shoot by Steven Klein of Brad for his film “Fight Club”.

Monday, September 24, 2007

Model Guy Robinson meteoric rise started after being photographed by legendary Bruce Weber for the Abercombie & Fitch. He was soon starred as one of the models in Mario Testino’s Dolce & Gabbana campaign. Recently Bruce Weber photographed him again for Ralph Lauren's spring 07 denim campaign and Abercrombie & Fitch's winter campaign.Robinson has now walking for top designer to the likes of Versace, Valentino, Emporio Armani and Dolce & Gabbana in Milan and London. In addition to his ongoing success were a sexy editorial for L'Uomo Vogue, and a hot 20 page editorial for Upstreet Magazine.Guy Robinson was originally from Cornwall, pursuing a BA in Spanish and Portuguese. He plans to have a career in Broadcast Journalism after his modeling career.He is signed to CAPE London Modeling Agency and 2PM Model Management in Denmark.